, 1887-12-07
The National Temperance Com
vcnti0n mt an End.
cranky MOuthings by Two Of the
Lenders.
The Ola AbSnrdity That Liquor
is Forced Upon Men by the
Dealers.
Conference Ended.

CHICAGO, Dec l.--rhe national prohibi-
tion conference met this morning nt Bat
terry ID. The business of the national con-
miltee was not all transacted yesterday and
the subject under discussion was the APP
pointlnent OF delegates to the numi-
l.ating convention. A resolution was
passed that the representation In the ma
tionnl convention ot 1888 shall be on the
basis OF twice rs many delegates rom each
state and territory as represent 1t IN con-
gress. These delegates are to Ire elected by
such methods as may be decided upon by
the state committees.
The entire day was taken up with the dis
cussion Oi various topics. llie conference
was brought to close Tonight by
VI aud mass meeting at Battery ID armoty,
J b. Holmes presiding. General Clinton
II. Fish of New Jersey was the first speak
er. lie said IN part 'One great question Is
uppermost in the mind of every thoughtful
prohibitiunist. How can we hest hasten
the day OF overthrow of the liquor traffic.
We are growing impatient ut the slow pro-
gress we are making toward the day on trl.
llmph. We wonder why every good man
and woman Is not in battle array
with us. Every careful student OF the
situation discovers that now as never
before there is a nurmur and a stir IN every
city, town and hamlet in the country on
this one vital question. Meanwhile the sa-
loon sits supreme in the politics Of the
and canvass. Seventy per cent OF the
primaries in both dominant political parties
are convened in gilded saloons or cross
road taverns. In the great cities OF the land
where now dwell more than fifteen mi llions
of our people the saloon is the chief inspir'
alton IN politics. Its mastery over great
states is appaulling. The solem quest on
of the hour is, how shall we dethrone king
rum and restore the government to the peo.
ple?' How shall we arouse the public con.
science which now sleeps under the lullaby
of Loyalty to Party ".
The speaker asserted that these questions
could not be practically answered by either
the democratic or republican party. DEM
ocracy stands up boldly and says I'VE
will have nothing to do with prohibition,
we are against all sumptuary laws we like
the proiibitionists to keep up strohg par
ty because they make larger drafts upon
the republicans than upon us.
The republican party says we can't do It
lust now, why don't you keep quiet until
we get ready; we know in our ranks are the
best men OF the country ana we want to be
sufficiently outspoken against the sa Don to
retain them, and not TO be s'iliciehtly out
spoken to alineate the saloon interest. Had
the republican party taken up the issue
boldly aud taken such position as TO have
driven the liquor interest from its ranks, IL
would have stopped the the exodus OF the
best elements OF the party, AMI called back
those who have rebrlled against longer
submission to saloon diCtatons, ard would
now have been waving its ban
ners in triumph over both ends
of Pennsylvania avenue. There is
no safety i'll amy compromise with the
monstrous wrong, we must destroy II. No
system Of license or regulative taxation or
restrstion will avail. The prohibition
party has but one remedy and that is pro-
mbtiun. A halt million men are ready
to-day to march to the polls to emphasize
their opinion with prohibition ballots.
Another half million are almost persuaded
to come with us, and million women,
God bless them, are marching by our side.
The address was received with great APP
planse.
Ex-Governor st. John then spoke as fol-
lows:
"Mr. President, and citizens. For nearly
forty years this country has been under the
control OF two old parties, and what is the
of it to-day We hang and imprison an
archsts, and at the same time legalize, pro-
tect, and perpctuatc two hundred thousand
saloons, hot beds, where anarchy is prOpa-
gated, thrives and fattens. While the
uruukard goes to perdition, the urunkard
maker goes to the legislature to enact laws
for the people. Children cry for bread, and
their father is sent home penniless and
drunk. While the mother is powerless to
protect her home and her boy with ballot
the saloon keeper destroys both with his
ballot. As Sabbath bells invite people to
the house of God, brass band leads the
way to q Sunday horse race, prize fight,
base bali game, and beer garden. jeff Da
Wis, in his dotaye, without ballot, is de-
nounced as traitor, and ex-rebel guerrilla
Mosby, in the prime Of manhood with a
ballot, is given foreign mission. The
right of free ballot is demanded for the
black man Of the south, while white men
ur hung in affeyv N A. Il q prrxinD that right
in the north. Ministers of the gospel were
prosecuted and driven from the pulpit for
preaching and voting against African slay-
cry forty years ago, and they have been
prosecuted, boycotted and driven from the
pulpit for preaching and voting against the
rum slavery of to-day. Lovejoy fell mar
tyr to freedom in the fight against the slav-
cry curse; Haddock and Ganibrel and four
Others have fallen martyrs to our homes in
this struggle against the saloon curse.
In face ot the political platforms declar-
ing for flair count" the black man is
In the race for congress, and the white man
is counted out in Michigan and Ohio in his
fight for prohibition. While heavy import
duties are placed upon foreign goods, the
scum of foreign labor enters free.
For every dollar expended TO educate and
make strong for right, through the intlu-
ence of our public schools, fifteen dollars
are expended to tear down and destroy
them through the influence of public sa-
looms. Ignorant, vile, profane, viscious,
blear-eyeu, drunken bummers and tramps
are allowed to vote because they are men !;
but our mothers and wives, educated, hon
est. pure, noble and true, are not allowed
to vote because they are women.
While with one breath bribe taking Is
condemned in the next, bribery bureau,
with q political anarchist at its head is un-
blushingly admitted to be part of the I D
lifiCat Rtaphipoyv pf q ,arty Uhn~
poor woman is fined heavily for playfully
pitching pancake at the presidential par
ty, an eight thousand dollar diamond
mounted, gold belt is given to John l.. Sui
livan, champion slugger Of the world, and
yet the people are asked to perpetrate their
political parties under whose rule this con-
dition OF things has been brought about.
And why1 Surely not because either Of
them stand pledged to higher standard Of
morality the suppression OF the liquor traf-
flc, and greater protection OF our homes
for boys, for no such pledges are made by
them. Then what the result Of voting Is